FINALLY! We have received copies of two important documents: 1. The letter from the Arkansas Game & Fish and other local agencies to Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell requesting the withdrawal of the Blueway designation of the White River Watershed. 2. The response from Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell honoring the withdrawal request. (Use the scroll […]
The America’s Great Outdoors (AGO) program, along with White House Executive Orders EO 13514 and EO 13423, are the vehicles that are being used by the Department of Interior to establish the National Blueway System. White House EO 13514 and EO 13423 are being used to require all Federal Agencies to implement sustainable development (UN Agenda 21) in all of their policies. So even […]
As we told you in a previous email, there was a congressional committee hearing in Washington D.C. at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 of the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Subcommittee on Water and Power entitled: “A Washington DC-Based Bureaucratic Invention with Potential Water Conservation and Property Rights Impacts: The National Blueways […]
THE BATTLE AGAINST THE BLUEWAY IS NOT OVER! CALL TO ACTION: HEARINGS WILL BE HELD! Blueways fight not over Jul. 12, 2013 news-leader.com article by Deirdre Shesgreen If you thought the battle over the federal Blueways initiative was over, think again. Reps. Billy Long, R-Springfield, and Jason Smith, R-Salem, have asked leaders of the House Natural Resources […]
Click here to read the full articleTo read the full article you must be a subscriber with ArkansasOnline / AR Democrat Gazette By Bill Bowden The White River watershed is no longer a National Blueway. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell withdrew the Blueway designation Wednesday after a groundswell of opposition from […]